Great barramundi year ahead

The 2014 Kakadu Klash held in early April saw so much bait in the NT’s South Alligator River that it made the big barramundi hard to catch.
Competitors reported seeing huge barramundi rolling among the bait – which included scats, mullet, tarpon and even big prawns swimming visibly near the surface.
But getting the big, well-fed fish to bite was tough.
Shane Compain’s Team Tackle World won the event (Shane is pictured with his best fish from the event), and several metre fish were landed or hooked and lost.
The Territory’s Victoria River has also fished very well this year. The Finniss recently started to fire, but run-off in other rivers has pretty well dried up.
Greenwater trolling is now the name of the game.
Meanwhile, as we write this, Cyclone Ita is forecast to track down the Queensland coast as a category one system.
This means heavy rain for many of Queensland’s estuaries.
Repetitive wet years are doing great things for Queensland fishing.
Good fishing is almost guaranteed when it all settles down after Ita. It will be a bumper year for barramundi, threadfin salmon and grunter, and probably many other species.